Mop-holder.



W. T. CARTER.

MOP HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, 1914.

1,106,362 Pa ented Aug. 11,1914;

WILEY T. CARTER, 0F HENDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA.

' MOP-HOLDER.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 22, 1914. Serial No. 840,325.

. dishes, scrubbing or in fact performing any the other clamping member, which last ment other cleaning operations of a domestic character. a

An object of this invention is to provide a handle or handles provided with clamping or cloth-holdin jaws or means, so that cloths may be readi y applied to or removed from the holding device, means being provided whereby the said cloth is clamped and effectually retained in the holder.

\Vith the foregoing and .other'objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 illustrates a pers ective view of cloth holding jaws in assemb ed relation, the

' same being 0 on for the admission or application of 0 0th; Fig. .2 illustrates a plan view of the device in open position; Flg. 3 illustrates an edge view of the device shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 illustrates a fragment of the clamping device showing the clamping jaws in position to hold the cloth.

In these drawings 5 denotes one of the handles comprising a length of material bent on itself to form a loop 6 constituting one extremity of the handle, the ends of the length of material being shaped to form eyes 7 and 8 which constitute bearings for tioned clamping member constitutes the handle 9 formed of a length of material bent on itself to produce an outer loop 10 which constitutes the end of the handle. The ma terial constituting the handle 9 has curved cloth.

,As a means for holding the handles or, clamps 5 and 9 in approximately parallel relationto each other, which is the position' occupy or assume when the cloth is clamped between them, a loop or retainer 16:

portions 11 and 12 which pass throu h the 'eyes 7 and 8 and the handle is rotata le or Patented Aug. 11, 191%.

pivotally mounted with respect to the other handle or clamping member. The material constituting the handle 9 is continued past the eyes 7 and 8 and is wrapped or twisted as at 13, the extremities of the material bethemselves into the cloth to such an extent as to form an anchorage for the said cloth.

' The handles or clampin members 5 and 9 also serve to hold the 0 0th in place, thus augmenting the action of the tangs to such an extent as to prevent dislodgment of the they is slidably applied to the handle 5 and the said loop or retainer is of such shape and construction as to receive the other handle Rand retain the c mping members against movement so long as the loop is applied to them.

a I claim- In a mop holderga handle comprising a length of material ent on itself to form a loop constituting the outer extremity of the handle, the ends of the said length of material having eyes, a handle comprising a length of material bent on itself to form a loo constituting the outer extremity of the andle and having portions extending through the eyes of the first mentioned handle and pivotally mounted therein, the material constituting the second mentioned handle M.'B. HARRIS, B. H. PENN.

D h being twisted on itself to retaln the two lengths 60 ing of curved formation and constitutin tangs 14 and 15 which penetrate or embed 

